Abstinence-Only Education Vs. Comprehensive Sex Education

A report released by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) revealed a correlation between states that endorse abstinence-only sex education and high teen pregnancy rates, while states that offer comprehensive, accurate, and evidence-based sex education tend to have lower teen pregnancy rates.

Quotes from representatives of Planned Parenthood and other women’s health organizations are cautiously optimistic about how these results will affect official funding and endorsement of sex education.

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On January 1, I sent out my first newsletter. Over the past few years, I’ve dedicated more of my research to understanding how sex, intimacy, and affection fit together, so it seemed fitting to share this with subscribers. If you’d [...]

This Patheos blog post by Sunweaver discusses an uncommon dilemma: we’re very accustomed to people objecting to sex education because they say it’s against their religion, but what about people who object to abstinence-only sex education citing the same reason? [...]

Half a year ago, I wrote a blog post called “On Being A Sex Educator When You’re Not,” which related my experiences of acting like a sex educator when people in my life needed access to that sort of information. [...]

Oklahoma has the fifth highest rate of teenage births in the country, and yet sex education is not a state-wide requirement. This is leading to outcry among educators in Oklahoma City, the state’s largest school district. The pattern is a [...]

Oklahoma has the fifth highest rate of teenage births in the country, and yet sex education is not a state-wide requirement. This is leading to outcry among educators in Oklahoma City, the state’s largest school district. The pattern is a [...]

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I believe policy in sex education is never based on evidence and best practice, it’s based on social, political and religious objectives.

Basically, the people who make these decisions often don’t give a hoot about teen pregnancy figures and the data showing one thing or another, they care about preaching their moral views, securing their position, or persuading public opinion in their favor.

If the population don’t like the mere suggestion of their kids having sex, they will not support a person suggesting that (even if evidence supports it) they should change their attitudes.

Ignorance has always been at the root of all of these issues, and no amount of common sense or evidence can persuade a mob that they are wrong – especially when religion plays a part in the argument.

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